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Because of the growing importance of decimal floating-point (DFP) arithmetic, specifications for it are included in the IEEE Draft Standard for Floating-point Arithmetic (IEEE P754). In this paper, we present a novel algorithm and hardware design for a DFP adder. The adder performs addition and subtraction on 64-bit operands that use the IEEE P754 binary… (More)

Because of the growing importance of decimal floating-point (DFP) arithmetic, specifications for it were recently added to the draft revision of the IEEE 754 Standard (IEEE P754). In this paper, we present a hardware design for a rounding unit for 64-bit DFP numbers (decimal64) that use the IEEE P754 binary encoding of DFP numbers, which is widely known as… (More)

Floating-point representation can support a much wider range of values over fixed point representation. The performance of decimal floating-point operations is an important measure in many application domains such as financial, commercial, and internet-based computations. In this research, an iterative decimal floating-point multiplier design in IEEE… (More)